lord

Japanese: lord
lord

...Duke and Marquis are based on the continental system and do not date back to the Anglo-Saxon period. English nobility, which carries the honorific lord and is distinguished from the knight class, which carries the title sir, was usually inherited by the eldest son of the family. The name viscount comes from vicecomes, an official who acted for an earl in the early Middle Ages, and in England after the Norman Conquest this name was applied to sheriffs, but this also eventually became a simple title. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "lord" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…デュークとマーキスは,大陸の制度に倣ったもので,アングロ・サクソン時代にはさかのぼらない。 イギリスの爵位貴族nobilityはロードlordの敬称を帯び,サーsirの称号をもつ騎士knight階層から区別されるが,爵位は当該家門の長男によって世襲されるのが常であった。子爵の名は,中世初期に伯の職務を代行した役人vicecomesに由来し,ノルマン・コンクエスト後のイギリスではシェリフにこの名が適用されたが,これもやがて単なる爵位と化した。…

※「lord」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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